Policies & Guides; Other Resources

The History M.A. Policy Manual & Guidelines covers all aspects of the History M.A. program for students and faculty.

Listings below offer more information about various aspects of graduate study (including job placement) in history:

Websites

www.historians.org
Website for the American Historical Association, including a section on career opportunities for students of history. Some parts of the website are only available to members, so try the other sites below for specific job listings.

www.publichistory.org/index.asp
Website for the Public History Resource Center, including job listings, graduate programs, and much more.

www.ncph.org/index.html
Website for the National Council on Public History, which publishes The Public Historian.

www.h-net.org
Humanities and Social Sciences Online contains job listings, discussion boards devoted to subspecialties of history, and other amazing resources.

www.beyondacademe.com
Though the site targets history Ph.D.s who don’t want to work in academia, its advice, job suggestions, and links to job listing sites apply to M.A. students too.

Books

• Peters, Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student’s Guide to Earning an M.A. or Ph.D.
The textbook for Intro to Graduate Studies, but there’s no reason not to read it before or after taking the course

• Boice, Professors as Writers
Shows how to set up a writing program and stick to it; recommended by Amazon readers for anyone writing a thesis or dissertation

• Heiberger & Vick, The Academic Job Search Handbook, 3rd edition
Vital for anyone interested in an academic position, but not necessarily for other types of jobs

• Luey, Handbook for Academic Authors
The chapter on submitting articles will be most useful for you, unless/until you decide to get a PhD.

• Brundage, Going to the Sources
Basic guide to history writing & research

• Howell, From Reliable Sources
EXCELLENT coverage of the nuts and bolts of sources—much more advanced and specialized than Brundage

• Booth, Williams, & Colomb, The Craft of Research
Covers everything from finding topics to writing and revising

• Chicago Manual of Style
The hardest-working book in publishing. There's now a cheaper, smaller Pocket Guide available from Houghton Mifflin, by Robert Perrin, that is much more user-friendly.

Last Updated August 30, 2007